Assemblages

I create abstract pieces using form, shape and color to create an inner coherence to the artwork that is balanced, harmonious and visually compelling.  In so doing, I ask the viewer to pay attention to objects that are typically overlooked, discarded, or cast aside: scraps from a wood workers pile, rusted pipe fittings and washers found at a salvage yard, worn saw blades.

I also create pieces that center on wood, including rare wood: African padauk, katalox, yellowheart, purpleheart, ebony, pink ivory wood, spalted maple. I present the wood as an abstraction, designed, colored and developed by nature.  I invite the viewer to see wood outside of the usual utilitarian building material, but instead as a conveyer of the transcendent, something that invokes a spiritual experience of conjoining with the natural world.